Top 100 Think About The Future Quotes
#1. If you think too much about the future, about seeing me again, you won't exprience anything. You'll just be a slave to time.
Katie Kacvinsky
#2. I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.
Michelle Williams
#3. not think about time or plans or deadlines or that rust spot in my old shower that bothered me so much or that wild animal with all the teeth charging toward me called the future,
Catherine Lacey
#4. Our culture encourages us to pursue pleasure at all costs, to look for what will please us in the present and not to think about the price we might pay in the future if we do not delay gratification.
Anonymous
#5. You can think about that for everyone you hire: will I bet the future of this company on this single hire? And that's a tough bar.
Sam Altman
#6. You know, it's hard to say what's going to happen in the future. But, if I stay healthy, I think I'll probably play until I'm about 40.
Karrie Webb
#7. I can be nostalgic for the past, and I can romanticize the future, but I cannot sugar coat the here and now. I think that's why I try not to think about it, and I think that's the exact same reason why I need to.
Ellie Rose McKee
#9. I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That's what happens in all interviews.
Geoff Hoon
#10. Abandon ideology. It's time for every American to think for themselves about the financial, social and political issues that will shape our future.
Richard L. DeProspo
#11. Think about the future, Ranga, but do not live in it.
Ian B.G. Burns
#12. When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
Desmond Tutu
#13. Positive thinkers focus their minds on the future; they are never complacent about where they are.
Israelmore Ayivor
#14. Don't you think it's time we thought about the future? Whether our children are gonna be winners or losers
KRS-One
#15. I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.
Peter Thiel
#16. In Britain, the theatre has traditionally been where the public goes to think about its past and debate its future. The formation of the National Theatre, at the Old Vic, near the South Bank, in 1963, institutionalized the symbolic importance of drama by giving it both a building and state funding.
John Lahr
#17. You know life is weird. There are times I feel so grown up and like I know everything I need to know, but then I think about the future and realize how little I do.
Jillian Dodd
#18. I think origin stories are a great way to get people reinvested in a story. I mean, we originally accepted 'Star Trek' without knowing anything about Kirk or Spock. All we needed to know was that it took place in the future.
Donald Faison
#19. When are you most afraid? When the teacher hands out the test? When the popular people walk your way? When you think about the future? Even in your most fearful moments, Jesus is with you, offering a peace you can't find anywhere else.
Max Lucado
#20. The one thing we know about the future is that it will not be like today. I don't think that people should be too anxious about not knowing what they are going to do in the future, because we really can't know.
Karl Schroeder
#21. If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
John Galsworthy
#22. Slowly, Jimmy held up his outstretched hands. Men had been arguing for two hundred years about this gesture; would every creature, everywhere in the universe, interpret this as "See
no weapons"? But no one could think of anything better.
Arthur C. Clarke
#23. I think 'Y&R's future is contingent upon the ratings. Obviously, none of the soaps are kept alive for the sake of loyalty. It's all about ratings. It's show business. Period.
Eric Braeden
#24. Am I worried about the future? I don't know. When I think of the word it's like seeing a cavity, a space where a tooth used to be.
Kirsty Eagar
#25. Before Max Black, the future seemed boring and there wasn't much to think about. After Max Black, it was like I was looking at a negative, a stack of photographic paper, a jar full of emulsion, a paintbrush, and trays full of chemistry. There was now so much to do.
So much to do.
A.S. King
#26. I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.
Ram Dass
#27. All we think about in the cycle of violence is men.
If we miss the oestrogen factor we cannot solve the cycle of violence. We cannot bring peace to the world unless we hold women accountable and morally responsible, particularly for their attacks upon children.
Stefan Molyneux
#28. Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.
Marina Abramovic
#29. I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.
Idris Elba
#30. You can't do anything about the past, it's done and can't be mended. But the future is different, if you just think what you really want and reach out and take it.
Lesley Pearse
#31. Our thoughts about the future go far toward creating it; our minds and hears are like filaments taht connect today to tomorrow, they are conduits for either the status quo or the emergence of different, hopefully more loving, possibilities. How we think and how we behave determine where we are going
Marianne Williamson
#32. I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; 'City of Bohane' is a combination of the two. Bohane is a little kingdom. When I began writing it, I realised that it was in the future and that it was a place that didn't care about anything that happened outside it.
Kevin Barry
#33. Worrying about the future is a thing of the past. I don't think about it.
Pat Paulsen
#34. I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.
Yoko Ono
#35. Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bomb of terrible consequences. Christopher Hitchens didn't care about the consequences of smoking cigarettes. Tragically, he died of throat cancer in December 2011.
Ray Comfort
#36. The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.
Michael Ignatieff
#37. You have to be professional and think about the future.
Jamie Redknapp
#38. You need to think about the future, not the past. You
Gemma Liviero
#39. We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Tony Robbins
#40. The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
Augusten Burroughs
#41. I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's next! But I'm all into the journey. It's fascinating to me. So if I make certain what I want moment to moment, I'm cool at the crossroads.
Cassandra Wilson
#42. Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also asks the question: Whither?
Edward Hallett Carr
#43. I think of an old sermon my grandfather quoted from time to time - something about not looking back when you're plowing a field, but instead finding a mark in the distance and focusing on that. Otherwise, the rows won't come out straight.
Lisa Wingate
#44. When I think about the kind of guy I want to marry, I think I might prefer someone who knows where they are going. I mean a prince pretty much has his whole life planned out already, doesn't he? And this is important because I have no idea where I'm going or what I want to do with my life.
Jillian Dodd
#45. There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future.
Laura Dave
#46. I think the misconceptions, there are certain people that are fixed in those with those beliefs, and been in those for twenty-five years, you're not going to change them ... What you've got to do is basically talk to the future about what you want to with the country.
William M. Daley
#47. I think there are very few people who have a capacity to see the future. So it can be difficult when you are talking about something where nothing about it exists yet.
Jessica Livingston
#48. The physical threat posed by climate change represents a crisis that is not only material but also profoundly spiritual at its core because it challenges us to think seriously about the future of the human race and what it means to be a human being.
Grace Lee Boggs
#49. As you think about the future ... give thanks and trust God ... Even when life may be difficult, we should thank God for all He does for us - which we do not deserve.
Billy Graham
#50. As I think about the future, I'm back where most people live their lives. Which is, death is not imminent, and that's different.
Dick Cheney
#51. We should not regret our mistakes from the past and think about possible opportunities for our future.
Saaif Alam
#52. If you think of people as making decisions actively, every time we think about the cup of coffee, we say, How much will I enjoy the cup of coffee, what else could I not do in the future because I buy this cup of coffee?
Dan Ariely
#53. The future has to do with fear. Don't attempt to come up here. Don't attempt to go forward, you were nobody, you are nobody, and you'll always be nothing, so don't even think about coming here because if you do, something awful will happen to you.
Malachy McCourt
#54. I think that the message I have of optimism and hope about Britain's bright future outside the European Union is shared by many Conservative members and voters - indeed by a majority of the country.
Michael Gove
#55. Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with certainty the future of that man.
A.W. Tozer
#56. I think we're in a very exciting time - visually, I think we are. I've not got a crystal ball. I'm not saying I know what the future is at all. In some ways I'm getting quite pessimistic about the future, but in other ways I think it might get better. We are moving into very big changes.
David Hockney
#57. You have to be a warrior in order to become enlightened. If you think it's tough paying the bills, think about being everywhere all at once and doing everything in all the universes, simultaneously, past, present, and future.
Frederick Lenz
#58. Nervousness kill us ... because we think we have only one opportunity that is in the Present and we don't think about the future! We loose our balance.
Vikram Roy
#59. The moment I think about past letdowns or future hypotheticals, I mentally put myself on shaky ground. If I clear my mind of chatter, I can succeed, just like I did in 2006.
Julia Mancuso
#60. I've been bothered about time generally and our tripartite division of time into past, present, and future. I think I know what the past is, and I think I know what future is, but I'm really not comfortable with the notion of present.
Martin Seligman
#61. I think the depressing litany of projections about World War Three and global Brexit recession we hear from the Remain side is not the sort of approach we should take into the future.
Michael Gove
#62. We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
#63. I have to think about the future because, not that I'm bored with it now, but I can't live now, it's not my place to live now. I've got to live ahead of myself.
Ross Lovegrove
#64. I love books. I'm giving some hard copies of the Sacerdos Mysteries book away because I think there's something so brilliant about them. The digitisation trend is the future but people will still want the feel and smell of real books.
Elizabeth Amisu
#65. I don't think much about guys from the past. I'm glad I knew them, but there's a reason they didn't make it into my future.
Lorraine Zago Rosenthal
#66. Changing anything in the past, if you believe it's possible, could alter the entire future of the world, including my own birth, so I'd change nothing. Not a thing. As for the future ... I think I'd like to see how it all ends, which is probably why I write about the future apocalypse so frequently.
Jeremy Robinson
#67. I'd rather do something than read about it."
"That's fine, but if you do it, and then can't think what it means, it's never much of a memory. Life has more to so with memories of the past and longings for the future than it ever does with *right now*."
-pg 138-9
Dean Hughes
#68. I smile when I think of the past and get excited about the future.
Julie Murphy
#70. And consider this which is near to thee, this boundless abyss of the past and of the future in which all things disappear. How then is he not a fool who is puffed up with such things or plagued about them and makes himself miserable? for they vex him only for a time, and a short time. Think
Marcus Aurelius
#71. You can't worry about the yesterdays or even the todays. All you can think of are the tomorrows. They are what keep you going when your life seems to be falling apart. Trust me on this.
Katlyn Charlesworth
#72. When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
Patrick Rothfuss
#73. I think the artists of the recession will end up being a very strong force in the future. They learned about survival.
Mark Edward
#74. We need university education in Fiji and must seriously think about starting post secondary education in Fiji. In the near future we hope to see a university college in Fiji and ultimately a fully fledged university
A. D. Patel
#75. Sometimes this book stays in the present, other times I try to cut myself in half and count the rings. Occasionally I think about the future, but I try to do that sparingly because it usually makes me anxious.
Amy Poehler
#76. Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.
Ray Bradbury
#77. I fell silent after that. I didn't want to talk about such things anymore, at least today. My chest already hurt and I was trying to keep my mind calm. I didn't want to think of a future so bleak and dark. I had plans for my future and they didn't involve the world ending or society collapsing.
J.M. Northup
#78. Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.
Abbie Cornish
#79. Depression is a red herring," said Nariman. "I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. and there is not much percentage in the future.
Rohinton Mistry
#80. Callie, if you never think of the present then you can never do a thing about the future. The future's just made up on dozens of right-nows strung together.
Rachel Heffington
#81. As I think about the future the tears will come out again.
Aya Kito
#82. ...in life, a man only comes to a few crossroads that can shape his future for good or bad. Sometimes one recognized these crossroads, and could stop and think about the right decision. But other times, the choice could only be seen with the clarity that came afterward.
Morgan Rhodes
#83. I don't want to think about the future, or why we're wrong for each other. I just want to claim this moment and kiss you in the moonlight, because you're so fucking beautiful my heart hurts.
Jennifer Probst
#84. Countries who have a longer past are better able see further forward into the future and think about extending the time period that they've already been around into the distant future.
Hal Hershfield
#85. Under the bridge, traffic above us and coats around us, hearts thudding with the steady perfection of this moment, I thought of every word I had never before dared to think about him.
Future. Hope.
And love, as the rain slowed to a misty trickle through the long and beautiful night.
Holly Cupala
#86. It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#87. I didn't make 'The New York Times' bestseller list until 'Charmed Thirds,' and then again for 'Fourth Comings.' It gave me a certain validation, and it certainly helps position me for future books, but it's not something I think about on a daily basis.
Megan McCafferty
#88. I'm talking about when you're nearer the end of your life than the beginning. Now what do you think you think about then? The future? In the future I'm going to do this? Become that? What future? No. What you think is, 'How will I be regarded in the end?'
Christopher Plummer
#90. I don't think it's ok to judge others and put people down. However, it should be ok to be concerned about the health of someone which could leader to major problems in their future.
Scott Herman
#91. Fallen flowers can't climb back.
If the root is strong, we can expect new flowers. Don't think too much about the 'lost' past.
Just love the present & live for the future.
From the tree, I learn, Make your roots strong. There will never be shortage of flowers
Unknown
#92. Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you think about the most or focus on the most will appear as your life
Rhonda Byrne
#93. Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.
Jaron Lanier
#94. I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.
Billy Sheehan
#95. I didn't think about his world or mine or the future we couldn't have. I only thought about the warm light behind my eyelids, his soft murmurs in my ear, and the fullness of what we had in that moment. And we touched in all the ways of yesterday and more.
Mary E. Pearson
#96. I have always been very confident and very upbeat about the future potential of India. I think it is a great country with great potential.
Ratan Tata
#97. The future is like the moon. You never expect to go there, or think about what it might be like.
Rodman Philbrick
#98. The prison bars deny you the now. You are forced to always think about the past or the future.
E. Leo Foster
#99. I'm not singing for the future
I'm not dreaming of the past
I'm not talking of the fist time
I never think about the last
Shane MacGowan
#100. Whenever I want to stop myself being too Marxist about the future, I think about Shakespeare.
Paul Mason
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